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This is Let the Record Show. Now Here are your hosts,
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the Judge Richard Weinberg.
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Essayist and commentator Eric Levine.
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And Suffolk County Republican Committee Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia the Republican Party. Jesse is a vice chair of
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the New York State Republican Party as well as the
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county chair of the Republican Party. Out on Suffolk Long
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Island with us is our good friend, co host, noted attorney, commentator,
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essayist Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg, and we welcome
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back to Let the Record Show. Another good friend, Joel Rayburn,
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who's a senior Fellow with the Hudson Institute, a diplomat,
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a scholar, an expert on Middle Eastern affairs. Joel, welcome
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back to the show. We're happy to have.
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You, glad to be here.
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So as Eric and I walked into the studio, there
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was some breaking news that Trump has announced that they
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stopped the attacks on Iran and he expects a signing
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of an agreement very shortly.
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That's the that's the breaking news.
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So I want to open this up by he's saying,
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I want to reiterate my concerns and my skepticism about
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a deal with Iran. It's very simple. These people are hegemonic,
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They're zealous their death cult, They're dedicated to the destruction
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of the state of Israel, Western civilization, and of course
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the United States of America. My view has always been,
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as long as this regime stays in place, any deal,
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by definition is a bad deal because I just regroup
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and come back at us. And they've been funding these
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terrorist groups, whether it's the Hoodies, whether it's Hamas, where
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it's Hesbalah or other fringe Islamist groups of wage war
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against Israel and their neighbors, fellow Muslim neighbors in the
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in the Middle East. This is very serious business. So
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if there is going to be a deal, we have
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to look at very very closely. At the very minimum,
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we have to make sure that any of the nuclear
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weapons and their nuclear so called dust is removed, that
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the capacity to build the drones ballistic missiles stops, that
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they don't wage war through these proxies, and we don't
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fund these these proxies, that we have some degree of
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stability in the Middle East, and let's not forget. If
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we cut a deal with these people, you have to trust,
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but verify. And if you can verify, which I'm very
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skeptical about, you have a real problem. You cannot trust
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these people. They will be back at us, and they
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suppress their own people. And frankly, when Trump said back
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in April, hope help, and hope is on its way,
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keep up the fight, I think he's selling out the
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Ranian people as well as well as his neighbors in
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the Middle East. I'm very unhappy about this news. Piece
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of good news I'm happy about is as a report
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that Jay Clayton, the former chairman of the Security Exchange Commission,
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the United States Attorney for Southern District of New York,
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a great lawyer, good friend, Jay has been nominated to
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be the head of National Intelligence, which I think is
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an excellent choice because Jay is really one of the
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most frustrate public servants you can have. At this point,
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i'll turn you over to Eric.
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So Joel, thank you, Welcome to the show. I share
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much of Richard's concerns. First, let's start with what you've
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heard about what if anything is contained in this deal,
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and then we can talk about some of the specific
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concerns or issues that arise from it.
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Sure, Eric, Well, I think still probably a long way
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to go to get to the kind of deal that
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would be acceptable to the resident and to the US interests,
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let alone allied interests like Israel's interest and so on.
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So I think I always endorse the President's optimism. I
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do think there's a lot of there's a lot of
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hurdles to be gotten over. But the
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fact we learned
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a couple of things that over the last twenty four
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hours I think were really important to getting to the point. Whether,
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let's say, the object is to neutralize the Iranian regime's
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ability to do harm to the region around it, to
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our interests international security, and whether that can be secured
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in a deal, or whether it has to be done
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just by military capitulation and so on. I think that's
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just instrumentality, that's not the end goal. So we learned
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a couple of things, I think over the last twenty
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four hours about what tools the President is willing to
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use to try to get to that end goal of
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of eliminating the Iranians or neutralizing them as a threat.
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The first one is he showed very importantly going to
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return to force, and you know, on a broad scale.
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Of course, Central Command had been using force, but it
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was just proportionate responses to attacks on US self defense
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type of attacks from the Iranians themselves. Last night was
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the first time that the US that he instructed the
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US military to go beyond that, and I think that
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dispelled a mistaken assumption that the Irani regime had that
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he wasn't willing to return to the use of fort
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So he's re established some of the credibility as a
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threat of force Beyond that. A very important thing that
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we learned was that Project's freedom, the idea of opening
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up a separate channel through the straight OH hormones in
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order to get some vessels in and out actually didn't
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shut down. It did continue in a clandestine way, and
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that there's actually been some volume of crude oil and
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some lergy for example, that's been that's been able to
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exit the goal, so that that relieves the international economic
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pressures that the Rans are able to will Those are
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two important important factors. I think what we haven't accounted
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for is that I think there's a hidden priority for
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the Iranians that is mismatched
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at the US negotiating strategy here, our priority is first
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and foremost the nuclear program, the nuclear material and so on. Second,
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straight oh horror moves, and then the proxies has Balla
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in particular. It's almost like it's being treated in our
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conception as a side issue to be put off to
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the side, or that could be conceded or restrained in
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favor of going through these other two priorities, the nuclear
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program and the straight I think the Iranians see it
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exactly the opposite way. I think for the IRGC, has
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Bala is their priority. They're willing to risk going back
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to war. They're willing to risk economic collapse in the
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service of Hesbala much more than in the nuclear materials.
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That's why I think actually our approach so far has
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risked conceding to them upfront the thing that they want most,
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which is to preserve Hasbala as a threat and as
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a model of the of the Islamic Revolution.
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Anyway, that's that's that's the main reason why I think
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there there are potentially rough times ahead for this deal making.
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Yeah, so let's focus for a second on I happen
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to think you're right that the UH, the er GC,
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and the regime are laser focused on saving Hazbola. It
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is a concession that israel Is absolutely cannot make. It
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is an existential threat to their existence. To allow his
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boat to continue to exist is to concede in the
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northern border of Israel. It will be it will become
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a no man's land. No state can survive in that
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UH in that state. So if this deal does include
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a forced cessation of hostility and imposed cessation of hostility
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of the United States on Israel to prevent it from
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destroying his Bolah, I really my one of my huge
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concerns is that's going to put the Israelis and US
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on a collision course because I don't know how Israel
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can survive with his if his bull is allowed to
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continue to exist. That's the That's the first thing. And
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the second thing is that relates to the Arabs. If
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I'm the goal, if I'm a Golf Arab state, like
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could say, this is a wonderful deal, it's great, it's fantastic.
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It will not last a single day, assuming the Iranians
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live up to their obligations, which I think we can
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all be confident they won't. But even assuming they do,
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if I'm a MBS, if I'm Muhammed Ben Solomon saying
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to myself, well, Trump will be here for two and
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a half years and then he's gone and the regime
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will still be here. So we have to start making
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accommodations to the regime.
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Now, how much for the Abraham Acurds. Yeah, exactly, So at.
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A time when we really need them to be aligning
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with us, to be stalwarts against the Iranian regime and
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hoping to get them to join the Abraham Accords. Am
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I two concerns misplaced?
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I don't think they're I don't think they're misplaced. I
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think it's there's a little more nuanced to the issue
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of the Gulf States the Arab States reaction, because I
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also think one thing that's quietly happened here is that
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they've come to believe because the Iranian regime lashed out
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at them when they the Arab States were trying very
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hard to stay on the sidelines of this conflict. I
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think they've concluded in the Arab capitals that they can't
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live with the Iranian regime in the longer term, so
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they may have to hedge. They may have to accommodate
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in the immediate term to navigate the danger that the
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Iranians posed, But they are looking for ways, I think,
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to make themselves harder targets like the Israelis have like
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the Amoradis have started to do UH and and to
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ALIGNE in a way that is against UH that it
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opposes Iranian power. So I think that's I think that's
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what's happened. The Iranians are are going to wind up
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regretting in the longer term if if that regime
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I'm i'm Habala, I think you are right. This is
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this is the rock on which the ship will will
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founder UH if it's not done the right way, Because
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the Iranians want that agreement, will want that agreement to
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include a US obligation to restrain Israel from pressuring Hasbala
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and Lebanon. And that's not something that UH that Israel
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is going to be able to live with, and it's
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not something that I think any US administration UH is
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able to or has the interest in in guaranteeing. So
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that's that is the single grade. As I said before,
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I think that's the single greatest sticking point on trying
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to get to some sort of arrangement I they can
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get I think the president can get to a deal
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UH to to compel or or cajole the Iranians to
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relieve their pressure, their military threat to the straight over
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moves on the further elements of it, on the nuclear program,
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on on Hasbala. I think it's tough sledding, a long
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way to go.
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Yeah, So coming back to hisbola for a second, it's
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important for listeners to understand this isn't a BB issue.
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Everybody loves to say this. We just we don't we
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don't hate Jews, we don't hate really we do hate Zionists,
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but it's you know, it's unseemly to say it, and
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we don't hate Israel, we just hate Bibe. It's important
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for everyone to understand there's not a single elected official
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in Israel across the political dictums, whether you're liberal or
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you're most conservative, that will allow his bola to continue
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to exist to the extent that there's criticism of the
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way that UH within Israel, of how Nechana who's been
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prosecuting the war, it's generally because you're not doing it
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effectively enough. So there's who regardless of who the prime
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minister is. It going to be elections in Israel October
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or or or September. Regardless of who wins, that that
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prime minister is going to want to destroy as Bulah.
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any Israeli government can survive more than a few minutes
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if they concede that his Bulla can stay there where
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they the Israelis made a terrible mistake by allowing them
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to take over the country in the first instance. They're
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not going to repeat that mistake. Remember, the Iranian strategy
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is the s ring of fire Hamas and Gaza has
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Bolah in Lebanon, Syrian has ball also in Syria, which
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they tried to set up, and then in Iraq, and
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then you have the elements in the in the in
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the in Judae and Samaria, and Israel can't allow that
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to continue. So that's so that's the first point. So
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I just don't I just don't see how that can
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possibly work. And then to your point, do the Arabs
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have learned a lesson? Maybe the UAE has, but many
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of the other Arab countries, whether it's Kuwait or Qatar
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or Saudi Arabia. They have shown themselves to be pathetically weak.
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basket that the ad those Gulf States are gonna stand
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up and defend themselves, call me skeptical. I mean, I
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and Israeli operations, I mean US in particular operations. The
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second thing is that they have from time to time
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been participating in those operations themselves, either from a support
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aspect or occasionally direct strike.
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been other okay, yeah, beyond the.
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northern Gulf states, so Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Offfrain in particular,
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and the rocky militant groups that are under the Revolutionary
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missile strikes against Wait, Bahrain in Saudi Arabia, Potentially the
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cuts are from Iraq that it's gotten to the point
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where Saudi Arabian others have quietly warned the US and
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Iraqis that if it doesn't stop, that there will be
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strikes from some of the GCC countries against targets in Iraq.
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that they can't no matter it's and and there's no
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amount of going to Beijing and trying to construct, trying
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to enlist China as a as a guaranteur that's going
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to prevent as the threat from Iran against them and
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there is always a dubious proposition. But how many times
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think that in addition to the cost financial cost, that
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it's going to undermine our readiness but.
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Joe, respectially, your honor.
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what Joel had said about us going kinetic, where will
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I think so the question was half, how long can
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the US military keep it up? Is it? Is it
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arming US readiness? And so on? Well, I think lick,
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the US military has to keep it up. The president.
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of this conflict on on our turn, on terms that
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are accepted to us, he has to have that credible
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threat of the use of force. Uh So he can
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pull the pressure off and expect and expect to get
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his strategic objectives, because that is where the Iranian regime
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until last night, I think thought they were headed. They
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thought he was unwilling to go back to the use
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of force because of domestic political constraints or economic constraints
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here in the US. UH. The Iranians can read Twitter,
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they can read the US media here, and that's what
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they were hoping for. I think they had gotten into
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a situation where they believe time was on their side
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and that President Trump was going to be unwilling to
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come back and hit them before the midterms and so on.
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And he dispelled that or he started to dispel it
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anyway last night. He has to keep the blockade in place.
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to force them to a deal to successible to him,
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but then to enforce the implementation of it instead of
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what they what they normally do. So the US military
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doesn't really have a choice to but to stay on
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station for the time being.
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Choel, thank you, it's great to have you again. And
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before we get into continuing on this question, I just
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want to go back to something we were talking about
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off air about this alliance have you put together on
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the Blue and Orange with the Oklahoma Thunder, your favorite
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team in the New York Knicks. Last night when we're
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taping this show, you know, og On a Abi made
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that incredible tip in that gave the mix a three
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to one victory. And hopefully when this airs, we will
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be celebrating and planning a parade for new world champion
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New York Knicks down the Canyon of Heroes. Thank you
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for how you negotiated that that alliance between the Thunder
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and the next you know, it's probably the subject of
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another show, and we'll have you back after the NBA Finals,
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But just going back to what we were bringing up
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to you what it seems to be, and I want
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to just speak to a couple of issues you brought
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this airs would be a couple of days, is that
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Donalds and President Trump has definitely set forth that that
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the use of full force is never off the table
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and that he will that the Project Freedom was still
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in force, so maybe a little bit more clandestine when
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maybe less.
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Public that when we were led to believe.
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comes forward, and especially as it involves Israel's northern border,
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that whatever maybe being said publicly between the two leaders,
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do you see that or do you from your from
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your experience and what your your sources that Israel no
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deal is not going to move forward without is Israel's
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understanding acceptance in this deal, and especially with the fact
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that what we concluded in your last question with the
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last last question, is that that the use of American
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force and the presence of American force is probably not
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that Probably it is the only insurance that whatever deal
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may be signed, and no deal could be signed by
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the time we get to this, because that's the way
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that Iranians operate. And we don't even know which group
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we're talking to or whatnot. But do we see that
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there's a lot more going on underneath, diplomatically, militarily, strategically,
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you know, special forces to keep uh to keep like
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the straight up home moves open, probably freedom going. And
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the fact that we are there as a as a
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forceful military to ensure whatever deal may or may not come.
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your list Jesse. The first is the president in his
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in his statement earlier today, uh Is indicated that he's
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willing to seize carg Island or he's willing he's willing
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to seize the Iranian oil production. That's the first time
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he's been that explicit about that threat. So this is
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this is another threat that he's putting on on this.
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of gets lost in it from the headlines operation economic
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Fury is continuing and that the Iranians. The longer the
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Iranians keep up their confrontation with the United States, the
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more they're going to lose. They're they're going to deteriorate economically.
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There's there's no concept behind that that economic sanctions are
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going to make life difficult for the Iranian people and
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then that's going to lead to some chain reaction. That's
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not the idea. The idea is severely disrupt the Iranian regime,
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especially the urgency's cash flow that they require to prosecute
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the war and two and to pay for their security
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apparatus that keeps them IMpower. That's so so I think
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when you add those two things to to sort of
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the toolbox toolkit, uh that that you outlined, I think
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that tells you, Yes, there's an awful lot going on.
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the negotiation that's happening. There are these other lines of effort,
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these other lines of pressure that are very important to
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operate altogether as a grand strategy.
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I do want to come back to one of the
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one of the topics we were discussing a little bit
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earlier that the Iranian mindset of when Trump leaves, assuming
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they make it, yes, do they just say to themselves
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that we don't have to outlive the United States? We
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just is this for the regime, We just have to
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outlive Trump because if there's a democratic president, Kamala Harris
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will never enforce anything, peop booty Judge will never enforce anything,
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AOC will never enforce anything. So is potential Iranian strategy.
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Remember John Kerry during the first Trump administration would literally
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publicly tell the Iranians just wait out Trump. You know
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help is on the
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be in the back of their minds.
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one time before, because in late twenty twenty, we had
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the Iranian regime under severe economic pressure, very tight sanctions
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pressure that brought them really to the brink of collapse,
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to brink of bankruptcy and financial collapse, after which their
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regime would have collapsed. And they were just holding on
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for dear life, hoping that there would be a change
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of administration, and there was, and they gambled that there
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would be an immediate policy change with new Biden administration.
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and they were able to build the Then they built
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out the access of resistance even more with the sanctions
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relief windfall that led I in mind you directly to
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October seventh and October eighth. So yes, they will be
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looking to try to wait out Forresident trumpt. This is
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why I think the role of you know whoever is
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going to be the the the nominees for twenty twenty eight.
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issue and be explicit about it in the campaign and
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and and be held to that. And in addition that
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Congress has a role here that that Congress. If there's
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a consensus in Congress, the majority in Congress just behind uh.
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visa visa Runnian regime. And that's what can make it
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sustainable regardless of who's in the White House, or as
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sustainable as possible.
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No faith in Congress.
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is to separate themselves from issery exactly so and and
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still is the greatest thing since you know, the British
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surrendered and at the end of the revolution. So I
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don't I don't see how that. I don't see how
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that works. I don't see work.
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Well, that's that. But that's why, in my view, every
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congressional candidate is going to be running in the twenty
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six twenty eight cycles should be put on the record.
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What is your policy if you're going into Congress? Do
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you support this pressure policy? Do you support the strategic
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objectives that are laid out by Epic Fury, economic fury
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and this overall strategy or or not, and makes them,
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makes them go on the record so that voters, voters
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know what they're getting when when it comes time to vote.
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The war is currently very unpopular.
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O sure, you know what part of part of the problem, gentlemen,
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is this the stretch of homers were open. These guys
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led to the crisis in terms of maritime trade. They've
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learned a great lesson, which is they have real leverage
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because of physical geography and their ability to stymy maritime
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trade and have international economic results favorable to them. They've
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learned that lesson. They will not forget that lesson. They're
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a regime that's dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization.
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That's in their toolbox, and that's a real problem. That's
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my first point. My second point is I have no
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confidence at all in the ability of the American people
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to take long term pain. It's not in their toolbox,
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it's not in their mindset. It's not what the American people.
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We've shown during World War Two we can do that,
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but that was a different way. The public has to
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be prepared public in.
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Trunk with a much better job of messaging and narrative
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and explanation.
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There's no doubt about that. I agree with that.
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But I'm saying to you, this is a country that
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has a extreme left and a Democratic party which is isolationists,
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an extreme right in the Republican Party that's
isolationists. You
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have people who are bitching and morning and crying about
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the price of oil, not understanding that when people tell
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you they want to kill you, you should take them seriously.
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And whether or costs a little bit more, it doesn't
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cost a little bit more. The ability of these people
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to bring destruction to these shores so our major cities,
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to our people is enormous, and they have to fight back.
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And I don't have confidence these these people at all
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the really sustained pain. I have absolute confidence in the
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ability of the run and regime to sustain pain, particularly
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on other people are doing the dying for them, like
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Amas and and the hoodies and hezblat Joel your thoughts, Yeah.
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I agree. I mean, we're in a we're in an
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uncomfortable We're in an uncomfortable situation where we have some
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we have some real threats out there. We have an
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alliance in China, Russia or on North Korea and a
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few others, And and I don't think the American people
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fully appreciate, uh, the danger of this alliance to our
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way of life, and and and people are fatigued with
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the global war on terror and with what what they
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termed forever wars, And they're in that kind of moment
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that we can naturally get into because we're protected by
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two oceans where there's an inclination to disengage from the
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world and look at our own affairs and what I think,
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for me, the lesson of the twentieth century. We have
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to care about what's happening on the other end of
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those oceans, and on who's in charge of the other
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end of those oceans and what their intentions are. And
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so if we forget that lesson right now, then we
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can expect to be in a very dangerous time.
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Well, we don't teach that lesson anymore. So are young people.
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Young people don't even know. The young people don't even
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know the twentieth century occurred.
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The final segment, just my final thoughts.
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Let's just show what we were speaking about. Do you
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think that when we were speaking that we need to
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address this through Congress and through the present. One of
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the problems we have, though, is that I know we
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all remember how we came together as a country and
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when nine to eleven happened just about twenty five years ago,
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almost twenty five years ago. We don't see that same
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type of unity on issues like this because politics has become,
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especially on the left, for polarizing and one of if
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not this, then that do you see Do we ever
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see something a situation, whether it's this Iran deal or
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any type of conflicts or or form or challenges that
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we'll be facing in the future that does bring this
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country together. If not, you know, ending a forever war.
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This is a war that's been going on for forty
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seven years with you ran against the United States.
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We didn't start the forever war. Yeah, the Iranians started it.
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Well.
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I think the difference is that on nine to eleven,
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we're the homeland was directly attacked here in October seventh.
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The Iranians and the radical left have very effectively said
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this isn't our war, this is Isra's war, this is
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the Jews war. And that's why that's why you see
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I think a lot of support for it, and it
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has to be pushed back. Yeah, the problem the Jews
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are dying Israelis are dying for us in our war
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and civilization. I think that's why a different view.
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And people have absolutely forgotten the incursion into our hemisphere
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of Iranian supported countries like Venezuela, like Cuba and other
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communist states. They have infiltrated not only the United States
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of America here, but in our hemisphere as well, and
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they will regroup and try to do that again. So
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it's not like you have two big oceans, and I
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have doubt with the technology today, the two big oceans
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are gonna be worth a dam over the years as
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they enhance the ability of ballistic missiles.
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To let's give Joel the last word.
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Yeah, I think there's still a majority in Congress that
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would line up behind the idea that there needs to
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be a strong policy against the running regime to curtailis
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ambitions to neutralize it as a threat. They may or
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may not agree with the specific mode of that, whether
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that's an epic fury type of military operation, or or
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its economic pressure or it's dimplematic pressure, but I do
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think they you still can get commerce to line up
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behind a strategic objective that the Iranian regimes can't be
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tolerated they can't have a nuclear weapon and that that
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needs to be US policy. And I think working with
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that kind of majority and walking it in the only
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way to make President Trump's palsy durable beyond his presidency.
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But I think the Biden administration belies your statement is unfortunately.
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Well, Joel, that's been a wonderful conversation with you, troubling,
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but wonderful.
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I want to.
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Thank you on behalf of Cheman Garcia, Eric and myself
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for being back with us again. As this unfolds, we'll
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reach out to you again to join us. Thank you
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for your analysis and your insight, and we'll be back
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in a few moments with our final segment of this
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week's Left the Record Show. Please stay with us a
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more important and interesting conversation. And once again, Joe Rayburn
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the Hudsonstude, thank you for being our guest.
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Yeah, you were great. Thank you so much, Joe.
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Thanks Joe, My pleasure, my pleasure.
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This is Let the Record Show, This is Let the
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Record Show. Now here are your hosts, the judge Richard Weinberg.
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Essayist and commentator Eric Leavie.
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And Suffolk County Republican Committee chairman jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to let the record show with Chairman Jesse
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Go see the Republican Party.
Jesse is the chair vice
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chair of the State Republican Party and County Chair Suffolk
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County Party. With us is Eric Lavino, attorney comment an essayist.
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I'm Judge Richard Weinberg, and our first two segments were
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privileged to have Joel Rayburn, a noted scholar diplomat from
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the Hudson Institute.
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I'm with her something when I associate myself with the
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Hudson Institute. No, it's terrific.
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No, it's a great it's a great instudent, does really
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great work, and they have great, great minds working there
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like Rayburn. He's just phenomenal. So joonmen, this is this
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is what I want to raise the issue about. And
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I think the more we get to the midterms in November,
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the more I'm going to be deeper concerned about this.
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I respectfully submit that the Democratic Party has really lost
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its soul as moral compass to socialists and Islamis. I
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think this is deeply troubling and frighteningly in terms of
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the threat internally and by the way supported by foreign money.
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As well. Look, you have.
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A candidate in Maine just got the Democratic nomination, Graham Platner.
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This man is a failure and a basket case on
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every realistic objective.
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He's a cret cin.
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Okay, so tomato, tomato, thank you.
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What he is he really is a clear and present
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danger to the survival of this country when you have
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people like this who are even considered for more than
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three seconds to be a United States Senate supposedly the
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great deliberty of body of our country and an important
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policy maker and a check and a balance for extremism.
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It's supposed to be the common sense body. It's supposed
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to be the check against the extremists majority majority tyranny
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of a House representatives because of the way the Senate
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is structured, because of the ability to slow down or
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stop dangerous legislation or public policy. This guy knows nothing.
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He was
recruited by a couple of radical extremists as
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a candidate, same way they recruited AOC. He was not
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an organic candidate. H didn't rise from the ranks. He
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was recruited by people who had an agenda to elect
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an Islamist and a socialist, and they got their wish.
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They drove out the incumbent governor from the race, and
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now he has a race against Susan Collins, who in
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my mind, is one of the best United States Senators
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we have. She's smart, she's calm, she works in a
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bipartisan way. You can count on her to have an
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honest analysis of the issues, whether you agree with her
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or not agree with her. She's somebody who stands for
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the best of the United States Senate and the best
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of this country. Susan Collins should be re elected to
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the United States Center from Maine by acclamation. But now
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she has a tough race against his character. Graham, Now
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what has he done. He's had a tax against the
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Jewish community. He's had a tax against his fellow veterans,
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saying they should die because he didn't like the way
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they conducted themselves. He's had homophobic attacks. He says women
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should in essence, lie back and stop planning when they
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when they get raped. He supports the worst kind of extremists,
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socialist and commist policies. Everybody knows about the SS tattoo
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on his chest, which he says, well, he didn't know
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what it was. And he's a liar, and anybody believes
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that he didn't know what that was since he considered
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himself a history buff is either a liar or a fool.
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They're accepting the worst, most reprehensible character in the world
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as a candidate the United States Senate from one of
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the two great parties in America. This is just awful,
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just awful. Now one more illustration, then I'll go to
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to Rigan to jest. In the state of Michigan, you
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have a character named Lsaeed. He's an Islamist. He's a
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socialist slash communist. He believes and hang around people who
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supported nine to eleven as a legitimate attack against his country,
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because the United States country. He's a supporter of Islamis terrorists.
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He is the worst of the worst of the worst,
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and yet in a three way race for the nomination
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of the Democratic Party in Michigan it's an August primary.
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He has the support of a large amount of population.
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Has he got the UAW has UAW, which is the
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pocket of the extremists. So what do you have? You
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have a dangerous guy who could very well win the nomination.
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Because it's so called, too moderates in the Democratic Party
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will split that vote, and you have a hardcore group
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of Islamis and leftists who could get him across the
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finish line. Who's he running against. He's gonna be running
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against Mike Rogers, former Congressman, former chairman of the House
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Intelligence Committee.
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Terrific guy, terrific former.
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FBI agent, a wonderful guy, a common sense guy, a
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self made man. He is exactly the people we want
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to have in the United States Senate. His experts, he's
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a national security foreign policy intelligence is absolutely essential the
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protection defense of this country. And these are the characters
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that they elect. And then one more illustration, and then
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I'll turn over the La mayor's race. Now you had
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this fellow pride and you can say whatever you want
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about him. You know he was an actress, So what's
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what's the big deal? He's running against a feld mayor pass,
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a leftist and a fool, and against a radical socialist
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who were a councilwoman. So he loses all of a
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sudden when they come up with all these absentee ballots,
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which is a crime against democracy and freedom because you
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can't allow these absentee ballots to come in and they
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don't know where they're coming from and they do mail outs,
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by the way, in the state of California, that's this
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totally propped up and created by the Democratic
legislation and
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lose from the governor where they do unsolicit mailing of
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absentee ballots to homes. We don't know whether the people
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are alive, dead, moved, And then you allow them to
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go around and harvest votes and you have drop boxes.
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It's a system leaves all kinds of opportunities for corruption,
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and this is very troubling. The good news is that
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Steve Hilton is in the runoff against Pacara for governor,
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but the loss of Pratt is very troubling about the
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future of LA and the future of Las.
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Problems.
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They have to worry about the state of California, and
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you have to worry about America.
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Eric.
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Yeah, So if you make all these points to Democrats
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or people that support Democrats, they say, you can't tar
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the entire party with the acts and statements of a
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few people. But here's the problem the Democratic Party. The
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Democratic Party is rallying around them. Look who's coming out
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in support of Grand Platner Bernie Sanders. Of course, who
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owns the party. He is the intellectual, ideological grand father
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of the DSA and now the Democratic Party, of course
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Elizabeth Warren, but presidential candidates Roy Kanna, and we all
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know Roy Kanna is going to run for president. He
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shows up in Maine standing with Graham Plattner extolling the
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virtues of this Nazi communist woman hater who brags about
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pleasuring himself imported partties. So it's not the individuals. These
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guys are the party. The party is rallying around them.
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You know, look at Zorammdani and does anybody come out,
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any any Democrat of any heft seniority come out and
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speak out against them? Where the hell's Chuck Schumer? As
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I always say, Chuck Soul of course is in the
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witness protection program.
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HACKEM.
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Jefferies endorsed the man who speaker the doors, Kathy Hochel
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indorsed store in Mom Donnie. Now Zormandani is endorsing this
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woman Chevalier who's running against what's splatt Who's only crime
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he's radical Left, but he's committed the crime of supporting
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Israel and taking APEC money. So Mam Donnie is endorsed
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and supporting a woman who not only doesn't think that
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Israel has a right to exist. She's on the record
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of saying Israel does not exist and that she thinks
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that America is quote fin disgusting. These are the candidates
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that they're supporting. Hubbala said, I have not heard a
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single Democrat come out and condemn Sayid for publicly stating
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that he mourns the death of Hassan Nosrala, the head
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of his bola, that he supports his bola's attacks on Israel.
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Have you heard a single Democrat come out and complain
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or condemn him. Of course not, No, you haven't. Because
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the DSSA is such a critically large portion of the
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Democratic Party's vote, they cannot. They have convinced them themselves
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that they must run to the left as far as
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they can to embrace the dssa's votes, rather than trying
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to track to the center and appeal to moderates and
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traditional Democrats. They are running to the extreme left. And
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that is why the DSA owns the party. So this
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notion that you know Graham Platner is a one off,
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or Absid is a one off, or Zorammdani is a
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one off. You know before you know it, every every
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democratically elected official is a one off. And that's really
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the danger here. The Democratic Party is so far to
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the left it has no moral compass any any party
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that can support or fail to condemn someone with an
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SS tattoo, a rape apologist who himself has assaulted women
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and is an avowed communist if you can't speak out,
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and also of course he he's engaged in a lot
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of these anti Semitic tropes that Susan Collins is owned
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by APAK, is owned by BB.
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She's owned by the Jews.
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Yeah, exactly, He's owned by the Jews. So I'm sorry.
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The
Democratic Party has no moral compass than they have
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no basis. You know, it's interesting they accused Trump of
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being a Nazi, but their candidates the guy with the
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Nazi tattoo.
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That's ridiculous.
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Jesse, I agree with both you, gentlemen. I mean that,
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as I said when we were we were speaking, and
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I may have interrupted, and I apologize, but that is
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a democratic party. That's a democratic party we have here.
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I remember ten years ago, I'm sorry, four years ago,
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I'm sorry, six years ago, I apologized and dunk listen.
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I was never going to guy Jesse's the.
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Democratic Party was concerned about Bernie Sanders becoming your nominee
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for president against Donald Trump in twenty twenty two. In
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twenty twenty, I remember that the Democratic Party was turned
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about Bernie Sanders and his policies in such the DFA's
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policies being the nominee in twenty sixteen, and in both elections,
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they rid the elections in the favor of their candidates,
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whether it be Clinton or whether it be Joe Biden.
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Now it appears that those same elements are the ones
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that are running this party. It is the sense we
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all agree with that. But here's law say to you,
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in looking at the races. I know Mike Rodgers, my
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Congressman Fields SCOOCHI served and was elected in the first
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one hundred and seven Congress of Mike Rodgers is an
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outstanding public servants, are outstanding, an entrepreneur, and a great
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in law enforcement. I believe he's going to be successful.
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And Susan Collins, I believe is actually facing a far
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more a far better candidate against her than the governor
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than the governor of Maine that was pushed out of
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this race. So I believe that the same concerns that
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Democrats had in twenty sixteen in twenty twenty are going
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to come home to roost while they're Democrats today, like
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you know, the Schumer and all the leaders around there
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that are rallying around these people, because what they're dealing
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with is they are racing to the bottom. Democrats are
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racing right now to the bottom, and they're racing to
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the bottom of primaries. They want to maintain their own
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power and wage to stay off any primaries against them,
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or be successful primaries on all sets. The issue here, though,
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is that when the electric gets a Susan Collins and
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a Platiner or whatever one of these Democrats on the
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far left in Michigan with Mike Rogers, that's going to
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be a different dynamic. There will money come flooring in,
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will George Sorossh's of the Democrat Party come flowing it? Absolutely,
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But still the appetite for this type of governance and
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these type of policies is not what exists in especially
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with independent voters that have for the last ten, fifteen
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and sixteen years have been leaning more Republican because we
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are the Party of common Sense and we talk about
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the hijacking of the Democratic Party by a DSA and
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now they're attack on America. But it's on every set.
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And you have whatever kind of Democrat you want to
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classify him, Schumer, Jeffreys or a moderate. They want to however,
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they want to classify themselves that they're not dsas. But
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they're all part of the same group. Number one, they
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have Trump derangement syndrome. Number two, they're policies all are
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progressive account of policies that contribute to inflation. They ultimately
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harm the American working class and stifled growth. They are
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against border security to keep art safe. They want to
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keep illegal immigrants here that have criminal records or mental
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or are mentally challenged and have mental problems and diseases
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here in America so that they can prey on our citizens.
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They certainly want to leave. And we're not learning lesson
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by some of these people, the Democrats, because in Europe
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we've seen a shift in the cultural stances of the
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European culture is almost gone. It's almost gone because
of
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unchecked immigration in the EU and such, and certainly it's
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you know, it's ological differences. So when I say to you,
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is that while these individuals pose a danger and they do,
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they pose, they pose an immediate danger to the United States,
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to our way of life, how we way of governance.
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I do believe and have trust in the American people
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and the American voters, the same voters that we're going
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to reject the Bernie Centers in twenty sixteen, in twenty
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twenty and force the Democrats to to you know, Jerry
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rig their election system, their primary system. Are the same
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electorate that's going to say when they can see a
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Mike Rodgers and as Suton Collins against these these ultra
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left DSA Democrats, I think we're going to be successful.
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Well, I hope you're right. I hope you're right.
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Yes, No, no, I know, I mean I really hope
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because we're really when you talk about these issues, you're
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not talking about competing baseball teams or basketball teams. You're
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talking about the future of this country. And the sad
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thing is that, you know is Obama famously said elections
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have consequences when they beat Trump.
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Unless you're a Democrat, then you packed the Supreme courts, right, right, So.
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That's that's the consequences. The consequences as we go on
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exactly or get rid of the checks and balances the
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United States Senate on the filibuster so they can push
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through every radical piece of legislation they want.
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Well, there are a lot of voices in the Republican
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Party now they're advocating for that.
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I know, but I'm but I'm saying to you, but
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the Democrats wanted because you know what the Democrats will.
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Do with it's coming. The problem is, I mean, we
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have there's political realities, and you gotta be pragmatic. It
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is coming. The elimination of the filibuster is coming. The
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moment that the Gabble is controlled by the Democrats in
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the u u. S. Senate, the philipbuster is gone.
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Well, they have to they have to control. They have
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to control the White House, the Senate and the House.
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Otherwise it's a waste.
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Yeah.
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Well, if you get rid of the philibuster and the
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Senate and you don't control the House to the White House,
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it's meaningless through anyway.
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Well, this is true, none of that.
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But but I think, uh, I think Jesse's concern is
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a is a real one.
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No, it is if the Democrats take over the White House,
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the Senate, in the House, yes, that's a real concern.
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And you can take the trust.
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Even if they don't, I mean the philipbuster with right.
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Now, say in a split chamber that one party controls
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just one of the two uh houses of Congress, still
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there is in the Senate a good deal that that
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is still subject to the ultra fringe left of that
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party or the ultra friends right of that party because
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of the filibuster means you can't get the sixty.
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Yeah, but either the House the speaker won't bring it
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to the floor so it won't go anywhere, or if
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it gets out of Congress, the president of the other
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party will veto it.
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Look, I have to tell you so on I find
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it very troubling, you know, being a quasi student of
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history and political science, having read the feralist papers, having
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studied the Constitution, I'm very troubled by the impulses of
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the mob to do havoc and to trample the rights
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of the fellow citizens. I think you have to worry
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about that. That's what Madison was worried about. That's what
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the checks and balances, That's what the separation of powers
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was about. That's what federalism is about. That's why three
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coequal branches is about. It's all about checking majority tyranny.
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That's the one of the fireless papers in Constitution United
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States that holds true two hundred and fifty years after
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the Decoration of Independence. Majority tyranny is a great threat
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to this country internally, gentleman, another interesting show. Elias has
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given us the hook, something that if he is.
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Elias is all knowing and all powerful.
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And he's probably given the hook to the people in
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Philadelphia the Constitutional Convention as well, way back then.
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So I want to thank you both.
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He's our wizard of us.
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He certainly is. So this has been another great show.
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Thank you for listening, and as always, God bless you,
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God bless your families, and God bless America. To look
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forward to being with you again next week on Let
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the Record Show.
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Thank you